US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Oct. 7 for "Intermediate transfer belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,484, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Intermediate transfer belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Satoya Sugiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Furukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeru Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Tanemura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate transfer belt includes a resin, conductive carbon particles, and an alkyl silicone oil and a modified body thereof, in which regions different in a content of the alkyl silicone oil ...